Running SmolVLM Locally in Your Browser with Transformers.js
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Helping scientists run complex data analyses without writing code
As costs for diagnostic and sequencing technologies have plummeted in recent years, researchers have collected an unprecedented amount of data around disease and biology. Unfortunately, scientists hoping to go from data to new cures often require help from someone with experience in software engineering. Now, Watershed Bio is helping scientists and bioinformaticians run experiments and get insights with a platform that lets users analyze complex datasets regardless of their computational skills. The cloud-based platform provides workflow templates and […]
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Cato Experts: The Tariff Dividend is a Fiscal Fantasy
In a new op-ed, Cato Institute trade experts Colin Grabow and Clark Packard argue that the White House’s proposed $2,000 “tariff dividend” checks amount to “pure fiscal fantasy,” driven by “fantastical math” and “considerable legal obstacles.” lead , Grabow and Packard say “Total tariff collections – of which Trump’s tariffs are but a subset – amounted to $195 billion in the 2025 fiscal year. Yet, independent analyses find that sending $2,000 payments, even just to tax filers earning under $100,000, […]
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Poverty IN America
Book Review of Poverty, By America, by Matthew Desmond.1 I had not planned to read this book. I found the author’s essay on the history of American capitalism for the New York Times Magazine‘s 1619 Project badly wanting, so I passed over Poverty, By America, until one of my students (a sociology major) asked me about it because he was reading it for his Sociology of Poverty course. Matthew Desmond is a passionate writer, but verve and fervor […]
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The latest AI news we announced in November
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from November 2025
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Air Traffic Control Privatization Is Long Overdue
Chris Edwards The recent government shutdown disrupted U.S. air traffic control (ATC) and frustrated millions of passengers, leading to delays and cancellations. Our ATC system is a bureaucracy within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), so it gets caught in the crossfire when the politicians can’t agree on annual budget bills. , Budget squabbles have repeatedly caused ATC disruptions over the years, and airline passengers can expect more trouble ahead as spending battles intensify amid soaring federal deficits. The […]
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Misusing Trade Agreements
Beginning on July 1, 2020, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) superseded the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as the trade deal among the three countries.1 Unlike NAFTA, which only included a transparency provision, the USMCA contains specific measures aimed at fighting corruption. This addition demonstrates a shared commitment among the participating nations to enhance efforts to prevent bribery and corruption within their borders. Including provisions in trade agreements unrelated to trade that address issues such as corruption, […]
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The Trump Administration’s Order on AI Is Deeply Misguided
Widespread news reports indicate that President Donald Trump’s administration has prepared an executive order to punish states that have passed laws attempting to address harms from artificial intelligence (AI) systems. According to a draft published by news outlets, this order would direct federal agencies to bring legal challenges to state AI regulations that the administration deems “onerous,” to restrict funding to those states that have these laws, and to adopt new federal law that overrides state AI laws. […]
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Watermarking and Forensics for AI Models, Data, and Deep Neural Networks
In my previous paper posted here, I explained how I built a new class of non-standard deep neural networks, with various case studies based on synthetic data and open-source code, covering problems such as noise filtering, high-dimensional curve fitting, and predictive analytics. One of the models featured a promising universal function able to represent any type of smooth response, while leading to fast convergence. Here I explore weight sensitivity and distillation. The words weight and parameter are used […]
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